Innuendo

It wasn’t Queen’s last album with Freddie Mercury before his tragic death due to AIDS, but 1991’s Innuendo was the last released during his lifetime and feels like a real capper to the band’s kaleidoscopic approach to whatever they defined as pop music in multiple ways. Everything from prog-friendly compositions, such as the stirring and openly Led Zeppelin-nodding title track, to reflective ballads like “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” to the impish humor Mercury clearly loved via the sprightly “I’m Going Slightly Mad” all took bows.